2nd A/C for 325SRX

[Me.Bikes.Dogs]

Hy Dave-g, what reasons did the dealer give for a low profile up front? If the rear unit is a full profile, anything you go under will have to be at least that high. Just curious.

[Maxzd]

Originally Posted by jje1960

Well, just over half way through our two week vacation in Myrtle Beach... It's been extremely humid and about 90deg daily, however the portable aircon in the garage area saved the day. Key for us has been to keep the main cabin flow on the aircon during the day, then flip to the closed position for night time.

Wow, wish I had your heat problem to deal with! We went away for a week in the interior of British Columbia just got back. It's very typical to see 90deg weather this time of year, not even close. The furnace got more of a workout at night and just ran the fans during the day... West Coast weather not nice at all this year...

[Maxzd]

Nice clean looking install thanks for the pictures!

[dave-g]

Originally Posted by Me.Bikes.Dogs

Hy Dave-g, what reasons did the dealer give for a low profile up front? If the rear unit is a full profile, anything you go under will have to be at least that high. Just curious.

dealer thought it may be better for aerodynamics. Just his .02 cents.

on a happy note:


1st trip with new rv. Took it to a motorcycle race my son and I were in in NY.
Only problem. One screw came out of the fender flair. It was one of 2 screws that hold the lower skirt in.

1st night it was 50 degrees f out. ran hat in am. next day 88 and humid. single ac kept inside about 72-74. New honda gen, ran perfect. About 2 gallons of gas for a 6 hour run with ac on.

[Me.Bikes.Dogs]

Looks like a great spot. Yellow vette, love it! Always been partial to yellow for my cars.

[smiller]

My only question is, how did you get the vette in the garage?

[dave-g]

vett not mine- sons friend who spent the night.

Also is that penguin ac any quieter then the stock one. I want to add the 2nd ac but my kids (who sleep in the living room) complain its noisy.

[smiller]

Quieter? 'fraid not. I don't have a dB meter but it seems about the same as the other, and maybe even noisier when in bed since it's about six feet from your head. I don't think they make any RV ac units you would call quiet. But I can sleep with it on.

Since you don't really need 2 A/C's when the sun goes down what I do is run the main (living room) unit when sleeping and the bedroom unit when watching TV in the LR. Works OK for me.

[dave-g]

when installing the bed room unit, does it connect to the existing duct work? or just blow in the bedroom?

[smiller]

It just blows into the bedroom. From all I've read you'e not supposed to connect two separate A/C units to the same ductwork as the individual units are not designed to work into an already-pressurized duct.

[dave-g]

Thats what I figured- but thought it would be nice to have a back up. Next summer we're looking into going to sc or nc for vacation. I'll be installing a 2nd unit before next year.

[smiller]

The bedroom A/C can cool the entire unit in a pinch (well maybe except for the garage.). Since cool air sinks and the bedroom is higher than the living room you end up getting a lot of cool air in the LR from the bedroom A/C. Not as evenly as if it were ducted of course, but passable. In fact as I mentioned above when we're watching TV in the LR and don't want to deal with the noise of the main A/C we just run the bedroom unit, works fine.

If the main unit were to fail (and ours already has, bad start capacitor!) you at least have the bedroom A/C to get by on. That's a nice secondary advantage of installing a second A/C since having your only A/C unit fail can ruin a summer trip in short order.

[Jimmie Fan]

2012 spec says set up for secend ac